Gilbane Building

Senior Project Controls Specialist

LocationRochester, MN
Job TypeFull-time

About This Job


Overview

Are you looking for a highly rewarding opportunity that provides extensive career growth opportunity? Gilbane is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist that is capable of fulfilling the cost and schedule requirements of multiple mid-sized projects or a singular large project, including day-to-day interface with project management, client and contractor personnel, while overseeing and developing junior level project controls staff. Initially, this position will be on a $4B healthcare project.


Who are we?

As a Top-10 ENR Contractor, Gilbane is a family-owned business with 45 offices that has been shaping communities since 1870. Consistently recognized as one of the most reputable construction management firms in the country, Gilbane is committed to delivering projects safely and on-time. You will have the opportunity to build schools, labs, hospitals, corporate offices, sports arenas and more!

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.


Who are you?

You are someone who acts inclusively, showing empathy and treating others with respect and dignity in order to uphold Gilbane’s core value of Caring and “People First” workplace culture. You seek to listen in order to understand and can convey information clearly. You’re a strong problem solver who can identify, prioritize, and implement alternatives for solutions, and you demonstrate adaptability by collaborating with others and supporting team members to achieve excellence. A self-starter who shows passion, commitment, and ownership all while delivering on business outcomes and driving results. You’re someone who identifies opportunities for new and improved ways of doing things that result in value-add solutions.

Your core values match Gilbane’s: Integrity, Caring, Teamwork, Toughmindedness, Dedication to Excellence, Discipline, Loyalty, and Entrepreneurship.


What’s in it for you?

Gilbane offers employees multi-dimensional training opportunities through a number of resources. While managing your responsibilities to projects, you will be able to enroll in trainings through our award-winning Gilbane University to build leadership and technical skills. In addition, you would work with an experienced team which provides you with the opportunity to learn new industry skills every day. You will protect and promote the interests of both Gilbane and the client in all matters as well as demonstrating the personal characteristics of a developing leader.


Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and monitor cost control systems that accurately measure progress, performance, and forecast expenditures. Provide timely feedback to project and business unit management.
Supervise the development, approval, and issuance of client and internal status reports that effectively communicate schedule status and identify critical path. Motivate the project team to define corrective actions for implementation.
Apply practical field experience with planning/scheduling knowledge to identify challenges to the project schedule and suggest mitigation plans.
Be familiar with the development and application of Gilbane indirect and overhead rates to cost.
Provide consistency between the project estimate, work breakdown structure, and project schedule.
Estimate cost and cumulative impact of proposed design or construction changes.
Support procurement by contributing to cost analysis for subcontractor pricing to determine whether pricing is fair-and- reasonable.
Understand the risk register. Analyze risk to evaluate and forecast contingency requirements for management estimate reviews.
Maintain and trend historical cost data from actual hours, costs, and pricing.
Apply practical field experience and constructability expertise to the development of estimate at completes and schedules when minimal information are available.
Mentor more junior level staff on proper change control and time impact analysis procedures. Support the project team with change identification, documentation, schedule fragnets, and costing.
Coaches and mentors less experienced team members.
Supports a positive and inclusive work environment.


Experience/Education


Qualifications

BS or AA in Accounting, Finance, Business, Engineering, Architecture or related field
5-10 years of progressive experience with increasing responsibility
Or equivalent combination of education and experience


Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Develop, implement and train on standard and project specific cost control procedures in accordance with the Division and/or Business Unit procedures
Identify and communicate key cost issues to project/construction and operations management in a timely manner to allow corrective action to be implemented
Tutor and guide project controls staff in project controls fundamentals, procedures and guidelines
Deploy and modify project control systems as appropriate to support project specific execution requirements
Implement / effectively use / train on company-standard and industry- standard project controls tools and systems to include Primavera Products, MS Project, Deltek Acumen Fuse, etc.

Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

For Rochester, MN, this ranges from $115,000 - $160,000 plus benefits and retirement program.

Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. We invest in our employees’ education and have built Gilbane University into a top training organization in the construction industry. Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.

Gilbane is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Note to Recruiters, Placement Agencies, and Similar Organizations: Gilbane does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our jobs alias, website, or to any Gilbane employee. Gilbane will not pay fees to any third party agency or firm and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Gilbane and will be processed accordingly.

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